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Images of America: Historic Raleigh

Images of America: Historic Raleigh

Images of America: Historic Raleigh by Jennifer A. Kulikowski and Kenneth E. Peters has a cover photo that I just couldn't resist posting:

"Museum historians Jennifer A. Kulikowski and Kenneth E. Peters have compiled this pictorial tribute by relying heavily on the collection of the Raleigh City Museum. They invite readers to step back in time to a more simple era when trolley cars clanged along Fayetteville Street, jazz echoed from Hargett Street, and the roar of the crowd erupted at Devereux Meadow Baseball Park."

From Arcadia Publishing.

Oddly enough, a more highly ranked on Amazon book with an arguably better cover photo on a similar theme by a content mill, Historic Photos of Raleigh-Durham, not only treats "Raleigh-Durham" as an actual place but also scrapes content written by John Dancy-Jones from my site netweed.com [twice] for its Amazon description!

The scraped content is from the days when Raleigh Nature was hosted at netweed, way back when, and John was writing about a review copy of the book.

Living Your Art: 6-Week Seminar Begins May 6th

Living Your Art is a 6 week workshop series for artists facilitated by Katrina Lamberto and John Parker.

From the announcement:

Do you need more time to create? Do you want to give up your day job and do art full-time? Are you struggling to juggle your time and priorities?

In this customized, intensive, 6-week artist workshop with interactive, hands-on exercises, you will have the opportunity to explore, define and map out your vision for how you want your art to unfold in your life.

This will be a small class with lots of individual attention and specialization. Space is limited, so sign up early! The class will meet in VAE's main gallery at 325 Blake Street in City Market in Raleigh.

Six (6) 2.5 hour workshops
Thursday evenings: May 6, 13, 20 & June 3, 10, 17
6:30-9:00pm
$75 for VAE members/$100 for non-members

For more information about this workshop or to register, contact Rachel Berry at 919.828.7834, ext. 4 or rachel@visualartexchange.org.

Official Site: Visual Arts Exchange

April 24/25: NC Museum of Art Celebrations

The NC Museum of Art has a grand opening celebration for the new gallery building with lots of cool stuff happening Saturday and Sunday all over the grounds.

See Goodnight, Raleigh! for some beautiful photos of the new building and surroundings.

Related Raleighwood, NC Coverage:
The Store of Joys: Writers Celebrate the North Carolina Museum
of Art's Fiftieth Anniversary

The Store of Joys: Writers Celebrate the North Carolina Museum of Art's Fiftieth Anniversary

The Store of Joys by Huston Paschal & the NC Museum of Art

I'm not in love with the cover of The Store of Joys: Writers Celebrate the North Carolina Museum of Art's Fiftieth Anniversary but I like the concept. In preparation for the Museum's fiftieth anniversary:

"the Museum invited some of the state's major writers and poets to contribute responses to works from the Museum's permanent collection. The contributors were asked to submit a previously unpublished poem or a work of short fiction or creative nonfiction that connected the written word with the visual representation. The book that evolved from this project includes new works from forty-five writers and poets. Each written piece appears adjacent to a full-color reproduction of the artistic piece which inspired the writer..."

"For example, Alan Shapiro responded to the image of a victorious hero on an ancient Greek vase by composing a poem about men weeping...and more generally about notions of sexuality, a subject he has examined in his recent work. Inspired by Milton Avery's "Blue Landscape," Lee Smith wove a haunting tale about a lonely little girl named Daisy who finds solace with an "orchard girl" on a nearby ridge."

Published by John F. Blair in 1997.

Worldcat: The Store of Joys

Related Raleighwood, NC Coverage:
April 24/25: NC Museum of Art Celebrations

Official Sites:
John F. Blair, Publisher
North Carolina Museum of Art

NCSU Libraries Release WolfWalk Mobile Site

WolfWalk Mobile Screenshot

The NCSU Libraries recently released WolfWalk:

"a mobile library project that allows you to explore North Carolina State University campus history using selected mobile devices. WolfWalk provides information on the history of approximately 60 major sites of interest on the NCSU campus, together with multiple current and/or historic images that are sourced from the NCSU Libraries Special Collections Research Center."

There's more at NCSU Libraries News.

Via Cultural Research: Library Innovation Blog.

Barrel Monster Superstar: International Coverage

AP Video: Artist in a Jam Over Traffic Barrel Monster

It looks like the days of riding around with a bandanna for a mask may have run into an anonymity crushing wall of international "Barrel Monster" coverage for Joseph Carnevale, aka uliveandyouburn, whose mug shot was recently outed by The Smoking Gun and who will now face random harassment from local law enforcement.

Actually, I don't know what he'll face but I remember (said grandpa) walking down Hillsborough St. with Mike Dean back in the 80's and having a Raleigh detective come up, stop him, request his id, ask if he'd been spraying graffiti and then letting us go on our way. Mike said they'd been stopping him randomly ever since some fans sprayed C.O.C. on the wall of some house they'd broken into even though no other connections were made to members of the band.

In the above video, Carnevale says he was charged with misdemeanors and that the barrel company doesn't want to press charges. Actually, they want to use the sculpture for marketing, or murketing as the case may be, which may or may not fit Carnevale's agenda but bodes a positive outcome.

Let's hope Detective Local Yokel bears that in mind!

Update:
Here's a nice NPR piece including interview.

Didn't know homie was on probation. Best of luck, superstar!

Barrel Monster Arrest Makes The Smoking Gun

The Smoking Gun: "Barrel Monster Bust"

Related Raleighwood, NC Coverage:
Barrel Monster Artist Busted

Barrel Monster Artist Busted

• N.C. State student accused of creating a 'monster' :: WRAL.com

Related Raleighwood, NC Coverage:
The Return of uliveandyouburn ["Barrel Monster" post]

The Return of uliveandyouburn

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